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...problems of underdeveloped countries could be solved just by reducing their debt. But this would merely be a gift to their tyrannical leaders. I would like to see Bob Geldof and Bono tackle the issue of reducing the rich world's agricultural subsidies. They are truly unfair. Sergio Elia Abbiategrasso, Italy Power Failure I was pleased to read "The Man Who Wasn't There" by political commentator Alain Duhamel [Nov. 28]. It's rewarding to see that a French intellectual realizes that France is in bad shape and that he has an explanation for the failure of French President Jacques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Amazing Inventions | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...market place at Abbiategrasso the women were in a dither. "And this man in Milan," one of them was saying, "can tell, simply by touching a photograph, whether the person in the picture is dead or alive." At the edge of the chattering group dark-eyed, eleven-year-old Antonio Costa listened entranced. He decided to go home and try the trick himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Rivet on Tony's Neck | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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